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Title: Protest against Boipatong massacre, Boipatong, South Africa
Subject: Youths--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark, Demonstrations--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark, Apartheid--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark, Political history--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark, Political violence--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark
Description: Youths protest the murder of 46 Boipatong residents by Inkatha hostel dwellers on June 17, at a rally addressed by Nelson Mandela. The killings caused the African National Congress (ANC) to cancel political negotiations with the government. South Africa, 19 June 1992.
Identifier: islandora:5370

Title: Policeman whipping student protester with sjambok, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political violence--South Africa--Pretoria, Student movements--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Education--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: A policeman sjamboks (whips) an escaping student rioter during unrest and protests in Western Township near Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 August 1985.
Identifier: islandora:5335

Title: TRC sitting, South Africa, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Johannesburg, South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, War crimes investigation--South Africa--Johannesburg, Best of Marinovich
Description: Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok (rear left), watches his colleague, National Party (NP) Foreign Minister, Pik Botha (front left), at a sitting of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Johannesburg, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:1223

Title: Sisters, Kewtown, South Africa, 1979
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Girls--South Africa, School children--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Two sisters from Kewtown, Cape Town, 1979
Identifier: islandora:932

Title: White supervisors undertake labourers work at market, South Africa
Subject: Labor--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Men--South Africa,
Description: White supervisors undertake labourers' work in a market in South Africa, January 1973.
Identifier: islandora:18490

Title: White supervisors undertake labourers work in market, South Africa
Subject: Social conditions--South Africa, Labor--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa,
Description: White supervisors undertake labourers work in market, January 1973, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18493

Title: Police shoot-out during Chris Hani funeral, South Africa, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Hani, Chris, 1942-1993--Death and burial, Best of Marinovich
Description: African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) supporters scatter as police fire teargas and live rounds outside the Soweto soccer stadium where the funeral of Chris Hani was attended by thousands of mourners, April 19, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1183

Title: Human Rainbow Concert, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Concerts--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: In the euphoric aftermath of Nelson Mandela's release from 27 years incarceration, whites and blacks came together to call for peace and democracy at a human rainbow concert in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5361

Title: Child being caned, Ditsaneng, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Violence--South Africa, Crime--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A shop owner canes one of three young boys for stealing a can of food from his shop in Ditsaneng (previously part of Bophuthatswana), North-West Province, 1981. The men who watched the caning laughed
Identifier: islandora:923

Title: Ray Alexander Simons with husband on return to South Africa, Johannesburg
Subject: Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Exiles--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Veteran Communist Trade Unionist, Ray Alexander Simons, with her husband, Jack Simons, on their return to South Africa after more than 30 years in political exile. She was a member of the SACP (South African Communist Party) and the ANC (African National Congress). Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5362

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu in mourning, Soweto, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Soweto, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Soweto, Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Tutu, Desmond
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu cries at a service to mourn the death, supposedly in a car accident, of an anti-apartheid parishioner. It was widely believed that the apartheid security police had set up the young man's accident to kill him, Soweto, South Africa, June 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5348

Title: Chris Hani funeral, Soweto, South Africa
Subject: Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Soweto, Political activists--South Africa--Soweto, Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, Political history--South Africa--Soweto
Description: Guerillas of the African National Congress (ANC)'s military wing, the M.K., carry the coffin of assassinated ANC military chief, Chris Hani, at his funeral, Soweto, South Africa, 18 April 1993.
Identifier: islandora:5372

Title: Child burning tyres, Soweto, South Africa, 1983
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Seeking warmth, a child burns tyres in the veld (Afrikaans for field), Soweto, 1983
Identifier: islandora:964

Title: Police warn union members, South Africa, 1970s
Subject: Labor movement--History, Labor unions, Black--History, Social control, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police with bullhorns warn workers to disband. The South African government opposed black unions, but liberalised labour laws in the late 1970s, allowing black unions to operate legally. This ushered in a period of worker organisation and activism, leading to the formation of COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
Identifier: islandora:866

Title: Little boy tending cattle, Transkei, South Africa, 1979
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Cattle herders--South Africa, Cows--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Little boy tending cattle. It took quite some time and all the sweets and fruit I had in my car to lure this boy closer to me so that I could take his photograph, Transkei, 1979
Identifier: islandora:957

Title: Police arresting innocent man, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--eNtokozweni, Race discrimination--South Africa--eNtokozweni, eNtokozweni (South Africa)--Social conditions, Police brutality--South Africa--eNtokozweni, Best of Marinovich
Description: A policeman and his friend try to arrest a man who was walking drunk along the main road in the small, escarpment town of Machadodorp, 1992.
Identifier: islandora:1191

Title: Hostel wars, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Thokoza, Political violence--South Africa--Thokoza, Thokoza (South Africa)--Social conditions, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Thokoza, Best of Marinovich
Description: ANC (African National Congress) supporters push over a breeze-block wall, part of Khalanyoni hostel at the southern end of Khumalo Street, Thokoza, 1990. These ANC warriors dismantled the buildings, brick by multi-coloured brick, and used them to rebuild their shacks that were destroyed in the fighting with the IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party).
Identifier: islandora:1192

Title: Woman protesting rural conditions, South Africa, circa 1985
Subject: Rural poor, Demonstrations, South Africa--Rural conditions, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A barefoot woman protests against living conditions in rural areas. Her banner reads "We starve in rural areas". Black people often went hungry in the remote "homelands" where they were forced to live, because they were unable to farm the poor, crowded land, and there were few jobs for them to earn sufficient income to feed, clothe, and house their families.
Identifier: islandora:876

Title: Homes set alight by vigilantes, Crossroads, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Fires--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A young comrade watches homes burning during the battle for Crossroads, a black settlement outside Cape Town. Vigilantes, backed by police, forced squatters of the KTC township to flee their shacks, by shooting and setting fire to their homes, Cape Town, South Africa, 10 June 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5347

Title: Defy Apartheid church service, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Tutu, Desmond
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu leads a 'Defy Apartheid' service with anti-apartheid UDF (United Democratic Front) leaders at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, 19 August 1989.
Identifier: islandora:5357

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